the pretension that some of us are better than others [is not] a good thing

particle physicist Jack Steinberger (1921-2020)

But Steinberger, who fled Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1934, was uninterested in prizes and often reiterated his belief that “the pretension that some of us are better than others [is not] a good thing”.

 

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